Radhakrishnan A Said Dictionary

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-25353-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, E-Book

This interpretive dictionary introduces the critical andtheoretical world of distinguished literary and cultural criticEdward W. Said through the crucial terms and concepts central tohis work.
* Compares and contrasts Said's perspective with other keytheorists, such as Derrida, Spivak, Foucault, and Jameson
* Describes the crucial terms and concepts central to Said'swork
* Places the development of Said's work within its historicalcontext

Autoren/Hrsg.

Radhakrishnan, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of terms ix
Preface xi
Dictionary 1
Bibliography 159
Index 171

Über Autor(innen)

R. Radhakrishnan is Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Diasporic Mediations (1996), Theory in an Uneven World (Blackwell, 2003), Between Identity and Location: The Cultural Politics of Theory (2007), History, the Human, and the World Between (2008), and editor of Theory as Variation (2007), Transnational South Asians: The Making of a Neo-Diaspora (with Susan Koshy, 2008), and Theory after Derrida: Essays in Critical Praxis (with Kailash Baral, 2009). His essays have appeared in a wide range of international journals and collecitons. Translator of contemporary Tamil fiction into English, he is also the author of a volume of poems in Tamil.